Nebraska Rare Bird Alert
May 16, 2004

Birds Mentioned:
American Avocet
American Bittern
American Golden Plover
American Redstart
Bald Eagle
Bay-breasted Warbler
Black Tern
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-headed Grosbeak
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue Grosbeak
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Bobolink
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Bufflehead
Burrowing Owl
Cattle Egret
Cave Swallow
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Cinnamon Teal
Common Tern
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Golden Eagle
Great Crested Flycatchers
Green Heron
Hooded Warbler
Hudsonian Godwit
Indigo Bunting
Lark Bunting
Little Blue Heron
Louisiana Waterthrush
Magnolia Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Northern Mockingbird
Orchard Oriole
Peregrine Falcon
Philadelphia Vireo
Purple Martin
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Ruddy Turnstone
Scarlet Tanager
Snowy Egret
Snowy Plover
Summer Tanager
Upland Sandpiper
Veery
Whimbrel
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Vireo

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In Lincoln County on the 5th and 6th, about 6 Purple Martins were seen every day in Brady.

In the Eastern Rainwater Basin on the 7th and 8th, 3 Snowy Plovers (at Freeman Lake,
at Sandpiper WMA and at Clay #32), about 70 Hudsonian Godwits, more than 1,000 Baird's
Sandpipers, about 500 American Golden Plovers and few hundreds Buff-breasted Sandpipers
were recorded.

In Scotts Bluff County on the 8th, an Orchard Oriole was seen in Riverside Park in
Scottsbluff.

In Lancaster County on the 8th, 3 Indigo Buntings and 2 Blue Grosbeaks were observed in
Wilderness Park in Lincoln.

In Scotts Bluff County on the 8th, 15 Lark Buntings, 4 Upland Sandpipers and 15 Burrowing
Owls were observed at the Scottsbluff Landfill area.

In Sarpy County on the 8th, a Scarlet Tanager was seen at Fontanell Forest.

In Sarpy County on the 8th, an Indigo Bunting and an Eurasian Collared-Dove were seen
in Bellevue near Bryan High School.

In Hall County on the 8th, a Green Heron and an Osprey were seen in SW part of that
county.

In Lincoln County on the 8th and 9th, a Black-headed Grosbeak and a Ruby-throated
Hummingbird respectively were recorded at a feeder in Brady.

In Sarpy County on the 9th, a Blackburnian Warbler was recorded at Walnut Grove.

In Douglas County on the 9th, an American Redstart, a Blackpoll Warbler, a Northern
Waterthrush, and a Yellow-throated Vireo were observed at Towl Park (just west of 90th
and Center Streets in Omaha).

In Lancaster County on the 9th, a Wilson's Warbler was recorded in Wilderness Park in
Lincoln.

In Lancaster County on the 10th, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird was recorded at a feeder
in Lincoln.

In Cumming County on the 10th, 2 Great Crested Flycatchers, a Bay-Breasted Warbler
and a Scarlet Tanager were observed at Wilderness Park, southwest of West Point.

In Sarpy County on the 10th, a Hudsonian Godwit was seen at wetland lake south of
Bellevue.

In Knox County on the 10th, a Summer Tanager was recorded at Bazile Creek WMA (east of
Niobrara), also a Philadelphia Vireo and a Yellow-throated Vireo.

In Dixon County on the 10th, 5 Bobolinks, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak and an American
Redstart were seen near Wakefield.

In Cass County on the 11th, 2 Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers, 2 Scarlet Tanagers, a Mourning
Warbler and 3 Indigo Buntings were observed at Platte River State Park.

In Lincoln County on the 12th, a Bald Eagle was seen west of Brady (the first eagle seen
in the area for weeks, if not months), a Ruby-throated Hummingbird was recorded at Brady
and 2 Veery were seen at Pawnee Slough bridge.

In Sarpy County on the 8th, a Northern Mockingbird ((Schramm SRA), a Black-Headed
Grosbeak (Fontenelle Forest) and American Avocet (Walnut Creek Lake Rec. Area) were
recorded during the Sarpy County Spring Bird Count.

In the Eastern Rainwater Basin on the 13th, a Little Blue Heron (Straightwater WMA),
a Snowy Egret (Straightwater WMA), 2 Cinnamon Teals, a Whimbrel (Clay County), a
Ruddy Turnstone (York County), Eurasian Collared-Doves (pairs in Aurora, Sutton, and
Hampton), a Magnolia Warbler (Pintail WMA) and Lark Buntings (1 at Pintail WMA and
5 near Harvard WPA) were recorded.

In Hitchcock County on the 11th, a Marbled Godwit was seen at Swanson Reservoir.

In Chase County on the 12th, a Forster's Tern was observed at Enders Reservoir.

In Sarpy County on the 13th, Black Terns were seen at Walnut Creek Lake Rec. Area.

In Nemaha County on the 12th, a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and a Philadelphia Vireo
were seen at Indian Cave SP.

In Harlan County on the 12th, a Peregrine Falcon was seen at Harlan County Reservoir.

In Franklin County on the 12th, Eurasian Collared-Doves were seen.

In Webster County on the 12th, Eurasian Collared-Doves were seen.

In Keith County on the 13th, a Snowy Egret, at least 5 Peregrine Falcons, a Snowy
Plover, 4 Ruddy Turnstones, a Common Tern and a Cave Swallow were recorded at Lake
McConaughy and Lake Ogallala.

In Phelps County on the 14th, a Hooded Warbler was observed at Jeffery Island.

In Lincoln County on the 14th, at least 25 Bobolinks were seen around the Pawnee
Creek/Pawnee Slough loop west of Brady.

In Lancaster County on the 15th, a Blackpoll Warbler, a Chestnut-sided Warbler,
a Magnolia Warbler, a Yellow-throated Vireo and Great Crested Flycatchers were seen
in Wilderness Park in Lincoln.

In Cherry County on the 7th and 10th, an American Bittern, a Bufflehead, a Burrowing Owl,
a Cattle Egret and a Golden Eagle were recorded.

In Sarpy County on the 16th, a Blackburnian Warbler, a Black-throated Green Warbler,
a Chestnut-sided Warbler and 2 Wilson's Warblers were seen at Walnut Creek Lake Rec. Area.

In Lancaster County on the 16th, 4 Blackpoll Warblers, a Blackburnian Warbler,
6 Indigo Buntings and 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were seen in Wilderness Park in Lincoln.

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